IBM announced a new version of its industry leading database software, IBM DB2 V11.1 to help developers easily bridge on-premise applications to the cloud and enable a hybrid data architecture.

DB2 V11.1 is powerful multi-workload database software that powers the next generation of applications including mobile, advanced analytics, cognitive and highly available transactions. IBM DB2 offers a security-rich environment required for the hybrid world, designed to protect data both in flight and at rest. It also scales to new heights of performance by enabling its in-memory technology to be easily deployed across a massively parallel processing architecture and helping to dramatically improve response times.
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"With many companies looking at more agile, open source alternatives to proprietary databases, how do you choose which is the best fit for your needs...

A decade ago, most enterprises building a database had only two or three choices: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and - to a lesser extent - IBM DB2. Open source systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL existed, but they were not on the radar of most commercial organisations..."
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Oracle has released details on the record breaking performance of Oracle WebLogic Server 11g together with Oracle Linux and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running on a Cisco Unified Computing System B440 M2 server each with four, ten-core Intel Xeon E7-4870 2.4 GHz processors with Intel Turbo Boost Technology set a world record dual-node result with the SPECjEnterprise2010 industry standard benchmark.Oracle WebLogic Server 11g delivered over 50 percent more performance than IBM WebSphere's best eight processor SPECjEnterprise2010 result running IBM DB2 9.7 on a POWER7 server.
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